1.How did you feel when you learned you couldn’t use the potato’s number in your description?When I heard that we couldn’t use the potatos number in our description I was pretty annoyed because I thought that the activity was really pointless and that describing a potato was probably the stupidest thing you could do. 2. Did you find it easier or harder to write in a group and why? I found it harder with the particular group I was in because nobody could get organised and the person who was supposed to be writing wasn’t doing anything, then at the end we had to make it up on the spot and we got ourselves disqualified for giving away what the number was (thanks Robin). 3.Describe the different methods used in your group to describe the potato, and explain which were the most effective and why. In our group we didn’t really describe the potato well and most of what we said to describe the spud was just us being dumb and mucking around. Nothing of what we said was very effective. 4.What ‘roles’ did you observe being undertaken in your group? In our group nobody had any real roles and at the end everybody dumped all the responsibilities on Robin who then tried to pass them on to Ahmed. End result: we all failed.
5.Describe the multiple intelligences used by yourself and others in your group during this activity Supposedly we all have different skills that we use to learn but the way we went about our task you wouldn’t have thought we could anything without help from anybody.
6.How well did your group make use of these different intelligences to achieve its goal? – give examples We couldn’t achieve any of the goals that the teachers gave us because we weren’t able to organize ourselves enough to get started.
7.Describe how your group worked together as a team. What qualities would a group (need?) to make a ‘good
team’ for this activity?
Our group didn’t work together; we didn’t even work by ourselves. A good team would need to be able to work together and delegate work between themselves so they could get more done. 8.What difficulties arose during the each part of the activity (describing and ‘choosing the correct
potato’)? Why did these problems arise? Our biggest difficulties were actually getting started and also being organised enough to get started, we couldn’t describe the potato because we were all too lazy to get started and we didn’t get te chance to choose a potato.
9.In retrospect, what else could your group have done to improve its performance in describing and
selecting a potato? We could have stopped screwing around started working so we could properly describe the potato and not get ourselves disqualified because we weren’t trying.
10.In what other way(s) could you have behaved within the group to assist with the task? Explain, as
clearly as you can, why you chose not to behave in this way during the activity? I could have started working and tried to get the others to help me so we could have got some work done. The reason I didn’t do this during the activity is because nobody else was working and at the time the activity seemed so completely pointless that I didn’t bother.
week 1 cant wait
What are your learning styles? What have you learnt about yourself from the Hermann Brain activities this week?
Did you disagree with any of the findings/observations? Explain
Were you surprised by anything you discovered about yourself this week? Consider for example, what you learnt about your learning style, working in teams or observing others in the group …
Do you think you rely too heavily on one style of learning? What new skills would you like to develop?
What questions has this raised about:
A. You as a person?
B. You as a learner
1. How did you feel when you learned you couldn’t use the potato’s number in your description? When I heard that we couldn’t use the potatos number in our description I was pretty annoyed because I thought that the activity was really pointless and that describing a potato was probably the stupidest thing you could do.
2. Did you find it easier or harder to write in a group and why?
I found it harder with the particular group I was in because nobody could get organised and the person who was supposed to be writing wasn’t doing anything, then at the end we had to make it up on the spot and we got ourselves disqualified for giving away what the number was (thanks Robin).
3. Describe the different methods used in your group to describe the potato, and explain which were the most effective and why.
In our group we didn’t really describe the potato well and most of what we said to describe the spud was just us being dumb and mucking around. Nothing of what we said was very effective.
4. What ‘roles’ did you observe being undertaken in your group?
In our group nobody had any real roles and at the end everybody dumped all the responsibilities on Robin who then tried to pass them on to Ahmed. End result: we all failed.
5. Describe the multiple intelligences used by yourself and others in your group during this activity
Supposedly we all have different skills that we use to learn but the way we went about our task you wouldn’t have thought we could anything without help from anybody.
6. How well did your group make use of these different intelligences to achieve its goal? – give examples
We couldn’t achieve any of the goals that the teachers gave us because we weren’t able to organize ourselves enough to get started.
7. Describe how your group worked together as a team. What qualities would a group (need?) to make a ‘good
team’ for this activity?
Our group didn’t work together; we didn’t even work by ourselves.
A good team would need to be able to work together and delegate work between themselves so they could get more done.
8. What difficulties arose during the each part of the activity (describing and ‘choosing the correct
potato’)? Why did these problems arise?
Our biggest difficulties were actually getting started and also being organised enough to get started, we couldn’t describe the potato because we were all too lazy to get started and we didn’t get te chance to choose a potato.
9. In retrospect, what else could your group have done to improve its performance in describing and
selecting a potato?
We could have stopped screwing around started working so we could properly describe the potato and not get ourselves disqualified because we weren’t trying.
10. In what other way(s) could you have behaved within the group to assist with the task? Explain, as
clearly as you can, why you chose not to behave in this way during the activity?
I could have started working and tried to get the others to help me so we could have got some work done. The reason I didn’t do this during the activity is because nobody else was working and at the time the activity seemed so completely pointless that I didn’t bother.
week 1 cant wait
What are your learning styles? What have you learnt about yourself from the Hermann Brain activities this week?
Did you disagree with any of the findings/observations? Explain
Were you surprised by anything you discovered about yourself this week? Consider for example, what you learnt about your learning style, working in teams or observing others in the group …
Do you think you rely too heavily on one style of learning? What new skills would you like to develop?
What questions has this raised about:
A. You as a person?
B. You as a learner